The play "Death of a Salesman-, written by Arthur Miller in 1949 deals with the pressure of becoming a well - liked, wealthy and successful personality by trying to follow the ideas of the "American Dream-. ... Just as his mania has become so distracting that he no longer feels secure driving a car, Biff confronts his father with the lies he has laid out for the family in the course of his life; though his loyal wife tries to keep the peace it reveals that Willy's dreams, at least, fail to become the dreams of his sons, too. ... Furthermore it was very interesting and exciting to see how...

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The play follows the life of a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. ... In the opening scene; a husband, Walter, and wife, Ruth, are seen having a fight over Walter's dream to become a "mover and shaker" in the business world by using an incoming insurance check for his mother as a down payment on a potential liquor business. Walter tells his wife, "I"m trying to talk to you "bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work." ... As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the smaller things such as his family behind...

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Willie's main purpose in the play is to fulfill the American Dream. ... The goals that Willie has set was to raise a American family and have a successful career later in life he realizes that his first goal had fallen through, by biff not going to college and happy not having a "good" job. ... The head of the company Howard Wagner is the son of one of Willie's deceased friends, and upon Willie's request to have a stationary job, Howard declines. ... Biff then makes it expressively clear that he wants nothing to do with his father and does not have any respect for him after the ...

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Traditionally, from the beginning of time, humans have always raised families as a unit, with each individual contributing towards the family to help in any way possible. ... Living the traditional American dream, to some, entails embracing this collectivistic state and becoming a part of a larger family unit. ... This scene is a two-point perspective of the traditional American dream versus its modern version. ... This, I believe, was the basis of the shift to modern family values. ... This tactic serves as the easiest and most effective way to highlight the difference between the traditional...

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While the Vatican (the papal government) forbids the Pope and priests to engage in marriage, the people who have experienced the blissfulness of marriage and those who foresee the advantages of getting married would agree with Cosby--marriage offers a delightful experience. ... Haemon tells his father, "I"m your son you in your wisdom set my bearings for me-I obey you", revealing his loyalty to his father and acknowledgment and respect for his father's authority (lines 709-710). ... In an earlier passage, Antigone cries to the people of Thebes, "denied my part in the wedding songs/ [ ] ...

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Bettleheim believes that sibling rivalry is a universal as well as natural sense that can have both positive and negative consequences in the lives of children. I agree completely with Mr. ... In order to go deeper into the psyche of a child experiencing sibling rivalry you have to comprehend all the hidden truths in the tale of "Cinderella". ... All children have the same desire as Cinderella, which is "to be rescued from their lowly position and surpass those who seem superior to them". The fairy tale of "Cinderella" portrays the exact outcome every child is envious of and many dream of. ...

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Since the cradle of civilization, mothers have been called upon to selflessly care for their children and their families, often putting themselves last. ... Momma points out to a dream she had where Dee and her got to reunite on what seems to be the late night johnny Carson Show. ... She then sadly eludes to the fact that in this dream, she does not appear in her normal simple physical appearance, but rather she is portrayed in the way Dee wants her to look, "a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake as my hair glistens in the hot bright lights" (Walker 327). ... Making...

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A marriage gives personal stability meaning to be with someone who is willing to give it all for each other and work hard to accomplished you desired dreams and goals, both will literally become and respect each other. Marriage is out of date today because couples feel that as long as their happy and their kids (if any) have two loving parents, it doesn't matter if they have a ring or a piece of paper (as many people referred to getting married by using such phrase). Many relationships want more independence or feel free to make any decisions without feeling that they have to give any inf...

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Tevye undermines the authority of tradition and the marriage matchmaker, by creating a humorous phony dream that convinces his wife that Tsaytl must not marry Layzar. ... Even if the two people didn't like each other, they would have would have to get married. ... At the time, social class differences are being challenged by widespread socialist revolutions , which may have given justification to why Shprintze thought that she could actually marry Ahronchik. ... Through the research I have done on the marriages that occur in the story and how history shows how marriages happened in the Je...

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How you ever consider what how tedious work and dedication have been replace with a faster technology and equipment in order to mass produced and manufacture most of them, how they no longer come from nature, and how authentic work has been completely disregarded and they have been replace with chemically enhanced ones. ... We want to take joy in our work, not kill ourselves with it"(5) I believe we are an industrialize civilization that completely have lost the test buds for good food. ... Society have grown a costume to cheap goods, because is convenient, we disregard and pretend to no...

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Although that dream is easy to achieve, more than likely it will be shattered. ... Currently that vow seems to have little or no value in today's society. ... I believe that a major contributor to the moral and social decay within American society is the breakup of the family unit. ... I believe this caused for many disagreements of which continue until this day, even after twenty years of marriage. ... I in no way believe that my proposal will eliminate divorce in its totality. ...

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Do to the overwhelming nosiness of her surrounding community, Emily feels trapped by everyone else's opinion of what her life should be and the people's expectations of her " hereditary obligation upon the town" drive her to fall apart and kill Homer Barron when she can't have the relationship with him that the townspeople have made her need. ... I say this because Homer Barron comes into town with a work party to fix the sidewalks where he is the white leader of this group of black workers. ... Than after a while some of the ladies of the town started thinking as Emily's...

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Do to the overwhelming nosiness of her surrounding community, Emily feels trapped by everyone else's opinion of what her life should be and the people's expectations of her " hereditary obligation upon the town" drive her to fall apart and kill Homer Barron when she can't have the relationship with him that the townspeople have made her need. ... I say this because Homer Barron comes into town with a work party to fix the sidewalks where he is the white leader of this group of black workers. ... Than after a while some of the ladies of the town started thinking as Emily's...

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This film was advertised heavily before going to theatres, which was where I first encountered it. My immediate reaction once I grasped what had happened was the feeling of fear. ... I reflect on Nick and Amy's relationship frequently when thinking about the difficulties of marriage. ... She has always struggled with bad luck and was unable to find love, foregoing her family's dream of her marrying a Greek man and making lots of Greek babies. ... The ultimate sacrifice would be having to choose between family and your relationship, a choice that nobody should have to make. ...

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In many cases, these advancements have been made in spite of laws that were currently in place. Many states still have laws in place specifically barring same-sex couples the dignity of having their relationships publicly recognized. ... Because they have a choice as to when they adopt, most candidates have the freedom to get their affairs in order without the pressure of an impending due date. ... Because of this flexibility, same-sex raising adopted children tend to be older, more educated, and possessing greater financial resources than other adoptive parents (Gates et al. 3) It is every p...

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Here, we see a successful Filipina, who has lost her only child, and cannot have any more children. ... A dream sequence where Justin, Dra. ... His use of lighting when Cita says Lisa ought to give Miguel to her is both eerie and amusing "here you have the once-charitable sister, standing in the shadows with her arms around the little boy, speaking in a sinister voice, while the boy is in the light with absolutely no clue as to what is going on. ... I was expecting a play at different shots, wherein close-ups would be used when Cita and Lisa have their picture taken, but Lamangan stuc...

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Amy is now in hysterics, struggling to breath and speak simultaneously, "Daddy, I love you so much and I have always taken for granted the fact that you've been around and now you're gone and it's so hard without you. ... Now I realize how deeply I have been affected and how much I long for that pseudo-divorced home where I had easy access to both my mother and father, even if they did not present a united front or communicate with one another "a situation that Rothbaum and Dyer-Tarquino claim to bear extreme negative consequences (Rothbaum and Dyer-Tarquino 7). ... While, ...

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All of these notions have brought on many debates and arguments for hundreds of years on what exactly is a woman. How women behave, their roles in society, their roles in a marriage, what types of freedom they have, how they spend their time, the education they receive, and many other things have been debated for hundreds of years. ... The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by their lovers, as princes by their ministers, whilst dreaming that they reigned over them. ... It leads back to the idea that men really do not want women to have an educ...

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Within 24 hours of having handed the baby over to the Sterns, Mrs. ... Whitehead was to have no further contact with either the baby or the couple. ... While many states have adopted some sort of guidelines, the majority still have no concrete legislation either upholding or negating the contracts in surrogacy cases. ... For the women who wanted to act as the surrogates, it served as a good source to earn a substantial amount of money, while helping a couple realize their dream of having a child. ... Even women who have had previous children allege that they did not have sufficient ...

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